Always ready to adapt to new technology. Where else in Westerham would you be able to buy a wireless? The BBC only started broacasting in1922.
Reference: WH0019
Here follows a series of 5 invoices to John Hooker from Ernest Blackton at the Wolfe Garage for repairs, supply of motorcycle parts and purchase of a motorcycle in the mid-1920s
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The car closest to the pavement and the one half out of shot on the left are Model T Fords. The doorway with the curtained window on the left of the photograph was the site of the ‘Ostlery’ of the establishment where horses and carriages would have been booked some fifteen or so years before ...
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Founded in 1912 the ‘Westerham Fanciers Association’ drew members from those that kept chickens and other fowl for show and breeding purposes. The President of the association was Alexander Owen Wolfe-Aylward, himself a direct descendant of James Wolfe’s uncle, who had in 1914 taken over with his wife as custodians of Quebec House, a position ...
Reference: 0043
Charles Aubrey Botley had his Nursery and shop beside Quebec House at the bottom of Vicarage Hill. The shop, which Gwen Smith remembered for its “long white marble counter and gleaming scales” is the distinctive low building with carved wood lattice-work window, called ‘Darenth’ today. As a nursery-man’s shop this dates back to the mid-1860s ...
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Hollingworth’s fruit and vegetable shop was the one with the rather tatty blind next door to Edwin Catt’s drapery store. Mr Hollingworth had his nursery down beside the market field in what became the eastern end of the Quebec Avenue development. His nursery was known by the youngsters of the day as ‘Hollybob’s Ranch’ but ...
Reference: WH0463
